{"id":433,"date":"2008-04-18T06:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T06:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/omeoflittlefaith\/2008\/04\/give-herman-one-dollar.html"},"modified":"2008-04-18T06:29:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T06:29:00","slug":"give-herman-one-dollar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/omeoflittlefaith\/2008\/04\/give-herman-one-dollar.html","title":{"rendered":"Give Herman One Dollar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Experiment time. <\/span>I want to let you in on a fun little opportunity that involves small acts of kindness<\/a>, teensy sacrifices, and the potentially big power of viral web-based fun. Some friends of an online friend of mine in Delaware have the crazy habit of taking a homeless person out to lunch<\/a> every Wednesday. One of these homeless people they’ve really grown to admire is a guy named Herman. Herman is a fantastic chess player, a community leader (among others of his social status), and the kind of guy most of us totally ignore.<\/p>\n

So these guys, Terry Foester<\/a> and Ben Cooper<\/a>, want to do something nice for Herman. But they want to do it in the smallest way possible: they’re looking for 500 people to send $1 in the mail to the Herman Fund. Please understand…as far as I can tell, this isn’t George Costanza and “The Human Fund<\/a>” (slogan: Money for People<\/em>), though the names are way similar. It’s completely legit, but you’ll just have to trust these two guys with your dollar. And they don’t want anything more than a dollar, because they’re hoping — Shane Claiborne-style<\/a> — that “a bunch of smalls come together to form a bigish small.”<\/p>\n

If you’re interested in being part of something that could end up being really cool, go to the “bigish small news<\/a>” post at Terry’s website, scroll down, and follow the instructions. If you decide to participate, make sure to comment on the post<\/strong> and tell where you’re from.<\/p>\n

Give Herman a dollar<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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(H\/T: Ken Grant<\/a>. Also posted at the Junky Car Club<\/a> and my blog at Relevant<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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